Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 01/12/2023

Subject: According to the Court, the concept of ‘political opinion’, within the meaning of Directive 2011/95/EU, includes attempts by an applicant for international protection, to defend his personal material and economic interests by legal means against non-State actors acting illegally, where those actors, on account of their connections with the State via corruption, are in a position to exploit, to the applicant’s detriment, the mechanism by which that State imposes penalties for criminal offences, in so far as those attempts are perceived by the actors of persecution as opposition or resistance as part of a matter related to those actors or their policies and/or methods

Parties: Migracijos departamentas (Motifs de persécution fondés sur des opinions politiques)

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 18 Refugees

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